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Collection | Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo |
Inventory Number | St. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O |
Current Location | magazine |
Publication Permission Status | permission for publication upon enquiry only |
Publication Status | published |
Ancient Provenance Site | Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high |
Ancient Provenance Details | temple of Chnoum, withim seem between trench wall and the south-east corner of the basement |
Ancient Provenance District | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Discovery | archaeological excavation Certainty: high |
Date of Discovery Term. Ante / Post Quem Non |
between 31 1 2006 and 20 4 2006 |
Finder (= First Purchaser) | Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt Certainty: high |
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Elephantine |
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt | Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution | (not relevant) |
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) | (not relevant) Certainty: high |
Object Type | stela |
Dating of Object | Ptolemaios VI./VIII. |
Dating | between -170 and -164 |
Mounting | (non [ostracon]) |
Localization of Text on Object | two-sided | |
Inks and Pigments | carbon ink monochrome black | |
State of Preservation (Text) | Complete. | |
Script, Primary | Middle Demotic | |
Language, Primary | Ptolemaic Demotic | |
Comments on Handwriting | Crude and compact. | |
Comments on Text Layout | Side 1: Narrow and unsteady lne pitch. The text is placed onto the right part within a framed column. Side 2: Medium and unsteady line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire surface, with small and unequal margins on all sides. | |
Existing Pictorial Elements | Side 1: In the lunette a winged sun disc. First regsiter man (the donor) kneelling rightwards, with a lotos flower in the hand. In front of him the ẖnm-vessel. Second register: Ram depicting Chnoum. | |
recto | verso | |
Quantity of Lines | 8 | 1 |
Quantity of Columns | 5 | 1 |
Line Lenght (in mm) | 15 | 65 |
Column Height (in mm) | 63 | 75 |
Height of Line / Letter | ||
Line Distance | 15 x 63 | 65 x 75 |
Modern Title | stela with rn mn-dedication to Chnoum |
Ancient Archives | none |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
Summary of Content | dedication "rn mn" before Chnoum |
Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
Gender | Man |
Religion | Polytheism (Egyptian) |
Transcription | Translation | Pictures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Places (read out from edition) |
ID | gender | en normiert | original | Language | Functions | in Texts |
8090 | not applicable | (no further persons mentioned) | (no further persons mentỈoned) | (none) |
RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Ptolemaios VI Philometor | -181 BCE -117 BCE | Dating by archaeological context (Ptolemaios VI./ VIII); |
DatasetID | 307664 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 107279 |
Author | Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography) |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 307664 (= St. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |